Corktown : News from Detroit

A collaboration between the City of Detroit and DTE Energy, Project Green Light is now offering thousands of dollars in rebates.

Hosted by Snap Judgment's Glynn Washington, the event will give five local entrepreneurs a chance to tell their story, both the challenges and success, in business. 

Michigan Community Resources in partnership with ULI Michigan recently announced five awards to community groups to implement green infrastructure.

The Senate Theater on Michigan Avenue, home to one of the largest Wurlitzer organs in the world, hopes to raise $150,000 in a GoFundMe campaign.

In just three years, Gwen Jimmere has quickly gone from creating an all-natural hair care product out of her kitchen to being picked up by international beauty product distributor Jinny Beauty Supply.

The Kresge Foundation expects to award the grants to 15 to 20 nonprofit groups across the city, including at least one in each of Detroit's seven city council districts.

Detroit's environmental leaders are convening to map the city's green infrastructure—one project at a time.

A full year into its small business programming and Motor City Match is starting to see some brick-and-mortar results.

Votes have been cast and the totals have been tallied as the top ten contestants in the 2016 Comerica Hatch Detroit Contest have been whittled down to the final four.

According to the Detroit News, a new "pink zone" pilot program, meant to ease zoning restrictions, could be on the way next summer.

Local placemaking group Resurge Detroit has launched a crowdfunding campaign to transform vacant land in the Brightmoor neighborhood into a community center and grow house.

Thousands of affordable housing and community development professionals are convening in Detroit this week for the NeighborWorks Training Institute, a symposium that's expected to generate $3.3 million in local investment.

In the program's first year, Motor City Match has awarded $2 million in grants to 40 small businesses, leveraging over $13 million in total investment in the city.

The Detroit Creative Corridor Center wants to help figure out how best to harness the Motor City's flair for design to improve its local economy. It's launching the Detroit City of Design initiative to make that happen.